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The Dawn Wall at BAF for Best of The Fest

INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed documentary The Dawn Wall will be shown at the final Buxton Adventure Festival event of 2018 – on Tuesday, 11th December.

The feature length film follows American rock climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson as they attempt to scale a seemingly impossible 3,000ft rock face in Yosemite National Park, California.

The adventure ignited a media frenzy, as the pair spent weeks living on the sheer vertical cliff in their attempt to free the new route, culminating in a congratulatory call from then President Barack Obama after reaching the summit.

The Dawn Wall has since been screened to hundreds of thousands of viewers worldwide and picked up Best Climbing Film awards at both the Banff Mountain Film Festival and Kendal Mountain Festival.

The event will also see screenings of two other adventure films, My Big White Thighs & Me and The Frozen North, both multiple international film festival award winners.

My Big White Thighs & Me documents Hannah Maia’s year of wild swimming, in a story about womanhood, miscarriage, healing, loving your own skin and braving the elements throughout the seasons to swim in wild places.

The Frozen North charts Ben Page’s solo journey by bike into the Canadian arctic to complete his journey up the American continent as part of a worldwide cycling adventure. The short film shows his wonder, terror and frustration riding through the frozen emptiness.

Matt Heason, Buxton Adventure Festival Director, said: “For the final BAF of the year, we wanted a Best of The Fest event, showing amazing adventure films that capture the heart of everything the festival is about.